“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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Motivation Quotes
222 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
Theodore Roosevelt · The Strenuous Life speech, Chicago, 1899
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt · Labor Day speech, Syracuse, 1903
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt · Autobiography, 1913
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”
Theodore Roosevelt · Citizenship in a Republic speech, Paris, 1910
“Don't let nobody tell you what you can't do.”
Rod Wave
“I'm just tryna make it out, that's the only thing on my mind.”
Rod Wave
“The work isn't failing during the flat part. It's loading.”
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“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
Epicurus
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
Socrates · attributed
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt · attributed
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats · attributed
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela · attributed
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison · attributed
